Methodist Women’s Missionary Auxiliary

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 171, 22 July 1939, Page 14

Methodist Women’s Missionary Auxiliary

DISTRICT CONVENTION AT FEILDING Glorious sunshine and a wealth of fellowship greeted the sixty delegates : who arrived from Wanganui, Marton, | Halcombe, Waituna West, Sanson, Rongotea, Taikorea, Levin, Ashhurst, Woodville and Palmerston North, at Feilding last Tuesday morning, July 18, to join the Feilding Auxiliary for a district convention. After morning tea at 10 a.m. in the warm and spacious Sunday school hall, ;.Mrs Darragh, president of the Fcilding Auxiliary, opened the convention with a devotional period and welcome to delegates. Greetings were read from the Dominion president, Miss Rishwortli, and sympathy expressed with the family of the late Mrs H. E. Pacey, one of the founders and indefatigable workers in our Union. At the rollcall which followed, a representative of each Auxiliary reported on the work and progress and the future plans of her homo Auxiliary. Then Mrs G. E. Taylor, Feilding secretary, gave an illuminating and informative address oa the Missionary Union, answering the three questions: Who aro we? What do we do? How do we do it? Airs Taylor mentioned that at last Dominiou | conference in October, 3938, the mem- ■ bership of our New Zealand Union stood at 3370, and that in these nine months the Union had grown from 71 Auxiliaries and 49 branches to 79 auxiliaries and 75 branches, chiefly owing to the enthusiasm and tireless labours of the j Dominion president. Mrs Taylor pointed out on maps where each missionary and sister was stationed, in both the Solomon Islands and in the Maori field. Last year the union paid £I3OO towards the sisters' salaries in the Solomon Islands field, and supported six and a half sisters in the home field, the other half and several more sisters being supported by the Home Mission Department of the Church. Besides this, large amounts of money were paid into the special medicine fund, and to “Kurahuna” Maori Girls’ Training School in Auckland. At 1.45 p.m. over one hundred auxiliary women gathered in the church for the service of Holy Communion conducted by Rev. H. J, Allen. Rev. A. H. Scrivin, general secretary of the Foreign Mission Department, delivered the pre-communion address and assisted Mr Allen. Mrs Whitelock, of Wanganui, then addressed the convention on the- diversity of gifts and the unity oJ the spirit, pointing out that women in their own homes may live splendidly even as those who achieve great things in the world and become famous thereby. Afternoon tea at 4.0 p.m. brought to a close a happy and most profitable day.